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Posts from June 2009

Posted
20 June 2009 @ 10am

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Words

Awesome Submission Guidelines

Submission guidelines for online magazines are often informative and hilarious. Here’s a particularly awesome gem from Eyeshot’s Hindenburg Complex of Infidels & Crusaders:1

… we are always open to reading anything you want to send (as long as it doesn’t involve dentists — lately lots of people have been sending dentist-related fiction and we’d [...]


Posted
19 June 2009 @ 8am

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Media

Rumpled

Check out this fantastic, and award-winning, short film by my friend and fellow Clarionite, Justin Whitney: Rumpled (click on film #18, “Rumpled”).

Based, no less, on a short story by another friend and fellow Clarionite, Keyan Bowes.

Good times.


Posted
4 June 2009 @ 7am

Tagged
Silly

I Will END You

“I will END you!” screamed Chainsaw Timmy.

Frank stopped whimpering, and his terrified gaze turned uncertain.

“End me?” he said.

“That’s right. End you!“

“You mean kill me?”

“Well … yeah.”

“Oh.”

There was an awkward pause.

“You know. End your life.”

“No, I get it. It’s just a little …”

“What?”

“I don’t know. Histrionic, maybe? Precious? Hackneyed? Something.”

Chainsaw Timmy turned off his chainsaw. [...]


Posted
1 June 2009 @ 5pm

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Media

William Gibson Distilled

dan2bit said this perfect thing about William Gibson today, while we were chatting about his latest:

Spook Country was good, in that elliptical Gibson way, where you know he’s done a ton of research in order to write the perfect throwaway paragraph about a barstool.

Couldn’t have said it better myself. In fact, I’ve spent [...]